WWYD? Observations of a hot mess family on airplane

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would have turned my airpods up and put on my eyemask.

+1000

So neither of you has any sense of smell? Or are you somehow unaware that urine actually can stink? Try enjoying your air pods and eye mask solitude with your nostrils enduring the aroma of fresh pee.

[Anonymous]

What would I have done? Nothing, it sounds so much like typical parenting these days that I would have barely noticed. This is why I've moved to online shopping etc as much as possible. It's rough out there lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ughh....some of this sounds like me. I just flew out with my four kids to visit my sister and see my niece get baptized. On the was back, I started giving my 5 year old a starburst for every page of hidden pictures he could find. I let him just throw the wrappers on the floor thinking we would get them later. Then all five of us fell asleep. We woke up when the plane landed at 1am. My second grader woke up wet. Here, she had peed while she was sleeping. She started crying because she was tired and wanted to clean herself up, but couldn’t get up while the plane was taxiing. Finally, the plane stops, and she runs back to the bathroom to change. While she is gone, my fourth grader, who I hadn’t noticed was looking kind of green, pukes everywhere. Meanwhile, my 5 year old won’t wake up all of the way and keeps laying on me. When my second grader got back and saw all of the vomit, she kind of lost it and started sobbing loudly.

So, my fifth grader picked up everyone’s books and threw them in his own backpack and took her off the plane. I helped my fourth grader get a little cleaned up, grabbed my little one who refused to walk, and left. I apologized profusely to the flight attendants on our way out. What we left behind was seriously disgusting.

I don’t know why I am telling this story here. Big families on planes? But it was about the worst ten minutes of my life.

You are a disgusting POS. Instead of “apologizing profusely” you should have cleaned up every bit of mess your children left behind - piss, vomit, wrappers everything. If you cannot handle the family you have, then you 1) have too many and 2) should not be traveling. Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

I agree that it is gross, and I am sure the person felt like crap but what do your expect her to do? Do you carry rolls of papertowel and fabric cleaner in your carry-on? There is pee and vomit. That needs to be cleaned professionally and with supplies. Asking for a whole stack of napkins isn’t going to cut it. We had a 2 year old puke in a restaurant and we were mortified and asked if we could clean it and they said they would take care of it. It is not please but this stuff happens.

It is another thing to let your kids run amok in the plane like the people OP is talking about

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry this isn't believable. There is no way a flight attendant didn't intervene. What a poor troll attempt

+1 It's like a troll by someone who has only seen planes in movies. Baby flew up and hit its head on the CEILING during turbulence? Mom got up and moved away (where? Just standing in first class?) partway through the flight, so the nanny was alone?

LMAO

That is what actually happens with "lap babies" during extreme turbulence....and other people who aren't seat belted in.

This is why I’ve always bought my kids their own plane tickets even when they were infants. It’s too dangerous to try to hold onto a baby during rough turbulence. The FAA actually advises babies should be in car seats. We aren’t super rich and don’t travel a ton, but I’ve always figured when we do travel that if one extra plane ticket for our baby is going to break our budget then we don’t need to go on that trip any way. I’d never forgive myself if trying to scrimp on a few hundred dollars left my baby with brain damage or worse.

Otherwise I think (hope) this is a troll post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ughh....some of this sounds like me. I just flew out with my four kids to visit my sister and see my niece get baptized. On the was back, I started giving my 5 year old a starburst for every page of hidden pictures he could find. I let him just throw the wrappers on the floor thinking we would get them later. Then all five of us fell asleep. We woke up when the plane landed at 1am. My second grader woke up wet. Here, she had peed while she was sleeping. She started crying because she was tired and wanted to clean herself up, but couldn’t get up while the plane was taxiing. Finally, the plane stops, and she runs back to the bathroom to change. While she is gone, my fourth grader, who I hadn’t noticed was looking kind of green, pukes everywhere. Meanwhile, my 5 year old won’t wake up all of the way and keeps laying on me. When my second grader got back and saw all of the vomit, she kind of lost it and started sobbing loudly.

So, my fifth grader picked up everyone’s books and threw them in his own backpack and took her off the plane. I helped my fourth grader get a little cleaned up, grabbed my little one who refused to walk, and left. I apologized profusely to the flight attendants on our way out. What we left behind was seriously disgusting.

I don’t know why I am telling this story here. Big families on planes? But it was about the worst ten minutes of my life.

You are a disgusting POS. Instead of “apologizing profusely” you should have cleaned up every bit of mess your children left behind - piss, vomit, wrappers everything. If you cannot handle the family you have, then you 1) have too many and 2) should not be traveling. Disgusting.

The flight attendants don’t want you to clean up body fluids. DD puked and pooped on a plane she was 1yo. I tried to clean it up and they asked me not to.

[Anonymous]

It's entirely possible that the mom is just a terrible parent and possibly a terrible person.

It's also possible that this was a woman at the end of her rope. Like another poster suggested, maybe coming back from her husband's funeral. Or maybe her husband's in the military deployed and she was coming home from her mom's funeral (I once helped out a mom in that exact situation on a plane). Or maybe just got a terminal diagnosis for herself. Or she is maybe suicidal and went home to a bottle of pills in a bath after that flight.

It's really hard to say. From your story, it's clear something is amiss in that family. But it's hard to know what, and it's probably not important for us to figure it out so that we can pass judgement.

PS I once was holding some one else's kid when the puked on me on an airplane. No good deed goes unpunished! I also held someone's baby while they spent the flight puking.
PPS I had a flight attendance once tell me to have my kid pee on the seat (he was crying he needed to go to the bathroom and she said we couldn't get up) -- she said her kid had done it and it happens all the time. Not sure about that, but she sure didn't seem bothered by the possible pee on the seat situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's entirely possible that the mom is just a terrible parent and possibly a terrible person.

It's also possible that this was a woman at the end of her rope. Like another poster suggested, maybe coming back from her husband's funeral. Or maybe her husband's in the military deployed and she was coming home from her mom's funeral (I once helped out a mom in that exact situation on a plane). Or maybe just got a terminal diagnosis for herself. Or she is maybe suicidal and went home to a bottle of pills in a bath after that flight.

It's really hard to say. From your story, it's clear something is amiss in that family. But it's hard to know what, and it's probably not important for us to figure it out so that we can pass judgement.

PS I once was holding some one else's kid when the puked on me on an airplane. No good deed goes unpunished! I also held someone's baby while they spent the flight puking.
PPS I had a flight attendance once tell me to have my kid pee on the seat (he was crying he needed to go to the bathroom and she said we couldn't get up) -- she said her kid had done it and it happens all the time. Not sure about that, but she sure didn't seem bothered by the possible pee on the seat situation.

Wow this is interesting!! Now I'm mad they wouldn't let me pee on the seat lol. I once had a really early flight that was about 90min - I drank a ton of coffee and was running late due to bad roads and poor planning and thought I'll pee on the plane. And then during taxiing there was the announcement - the bathroom was broken. So I sat there in sheer agony and even begged multiple times are they sure??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last night we flew back to DC. Family in front of us had 5 kids (1 was a lap child), mom & nanny.
Lap child was never in a lap. Was bouncing around the sears during take off/landing. We hit bad turbulence during landing & kid bounced up & hit her hear on ceiling.
Kids were throwing skittles at passengers in front. Also lots of screaming. At one point older kiddo (maybe 3rd grade) was dumping soda on younger (maybe 1st grade) brother. Same 1st grade brother definitely peed on the seat. Not on accident. Like stood up- unzipped pants & peed.
Mom moved away from kids midway and sat further up- leaving nanny with 5 kids.

That’s the fact pattern- what would you have done?

Troll level: novice. Implausible, not particularly amusing, and unlikely to provoke any strong response as a result.

This. Never happened.

[Anonymous]

troll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last night we flew back to DC. Family in front of us had 5 kids (1 was a lap child), mom & nanny.
Lap child was never in a lap. Was bouncing around the sears during take off/landing. We hit bad turbulence during landing & kid bounced up & hit her hear on ceiling.
Kids were throwing skittles at passengers in front. Also lots of screaming. At one point older kiddo (maybe 3rd grade) was dumping soda on younger (maybe 1st grade) brother. Same 1st grade brother definitely peed on the seat. Not on accident. Like stood up- unzipped pants & peed.
Mom moved away from kids midway and sat further up- leaving nanny with 5 kids.

That’s the fact pattern- what would you have done?

Troll level: novice. Implausible, not particularly amusing, and unlikely to provoke any strong response as a result.

This. Never happened.

Agree. There is no flight from Orlando that had enough extra seats for mom to just get up and move, and they don’t allow that in 2020 anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is so cringy. How do you know of kid 1st grader isn’t special needs? My son has SN and does crazy shit on airplanes and I deal with it.

There’s no point to this post but to bash. Jerky post.

Try again. I’m OP and a SN mom. I’m on it during flights. Mom legit walked away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:troll

Guys- SW let’s you move seats. We had 5 empty. Nanny boarded with kids (back of the plane) and mom boarded last. She put stuff on a seat up front and then returned to the up front seat when things got hectic.
Have you all never flown SW?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's entirely possible that the mom is just a terrible parent and possibly a terrible person.

It's also possible that this was a woman at the end of her rope. Like another poster suggested, maybe coming back from her husband's funeral. Or maybe her husband's in the military deployed and she was coming home from her mom's funeral (I once helped out a mom in that exact situation on a plane). Or maybe just got a terminal diagnosis for herself. Or she is maybe suicidal and went home to a bottle of pills in a bath after that flight.

It's really hard to say. From your story, it's clear something is amiss in that family. But it's hard to know what, and it's probably not important for us to figure it out so that we can pass judgement.

PS I once was holding some one else's kid when the puked on me on an airplane. No good deed goes unpunished! I also held someone's baby while they spent the flight puking.
PPS I had a flight attendance once tell me to have my kid pee on the seat (he was crying he needed to go to the bathroom and she said we couldn't get up) -- she said her kid had done it and it happens all the time. Not sure about that, but she sure didn't seem bothered by the possible pee on the seat situation.

Wow this is interesting!! Now I'm mad they wouldn't let me pee on the seat lol. I once had a really early flight that was about 90min - I drank a ton of coffee and was running late due to bad roads and poor planning and thought I'll pee on the plane. And then during taxiing there was the announcement - the bathroom was broken. So I sat there in sheer agony and even begged multiple times are they sure??

WTF. How can they fly without a working bathroom, or AT THE VERY LEAST tell people of this situation before they board. That is seriously messed up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so cringy. How do you know of kid 1st grader isn’t special needs? My son has SN and does crazy shit on airplanes and I deal with it.

There’s no point to this post but to bash. Jerky post.

Try again. I’m OP and a SN mom. I’m on it during flights. Mom legit walked away.

Okay, OP— tell us about what happened when the baby flew up and hit her head on the ceiling.